IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists – 2012 Honorable Mention

Hua Lu wins one of the five Honorable Mention awards associated with the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled “Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides and Polypeptides: Controlled Polymerization, Properties and Biomedical Applications.”

E-mail: hualu@scripps.edu

Academic Degrees:

  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011, Ph.D. in Materials Science

  • Peking University, China, B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Engineering

Ph.D. Thesis Title:

Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides and Polypeptides: ControlledPolymerization, Properties and Biomedical Applications

Advisor:

Prof. Jianjun Cheng

Thesis Essay: [link to full text; pdf file – 2.4MB]